In a previous article, "Doug" said:
You think thats a mess, in Alaska, many of the airports have TWO
different id codes or did, they are working to clear that up)...

The messy thing for me (doing my navaid.com waypoint generators) is trying
to figure out ICAO ids for Alaska airports when dealing with the FAA data.
In the lower 48, there are hard and fast rules for when you can and when
you can't turn an FAA id into an ICAO id by adding a K prefix. The prefix
in Alaska is two characters, and then the ICAO id is *usually* made up of
that prefix plus two of the three characters in the FAA id, but not
following any sort of rules that I can discern.

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